Backend Engineer
$150k - $250kFull-time
Kovo
Role Description
Join us as a Backend Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure that powers financial access for millions of underserved Americans. This role is for you if you want to own critical systems end-to-end and care deeply about performance, reliability, and scalability.
You'll be expected to aggressively leverage AI-assisted development tools to dramatically accelerate your output and maximize impact, all while maintaining strong code quality and system reliability.
Qualifications
- Systems-oriented mindset
- Care deeply about performance, reliability, and scalability
- Motivated by ownership and accountability for system outcomes
- Think critically about architectural decisions and their long-term implications
- Thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information
- Self-starter who can work independently and drive projects to completion
- Focused on shipping high-quality systems fast
- Comfortable in a high-intensity role and seeking an ambitious workload
- Strong sense of ownership and willingness to deliver on tight deadlines
- Believe software engineering is evolving from writing code to orchestrating AI agents
- Embrace AI generation of code and workflow improvements while maintaining high quality
- Hate AI slop and care about code quality and system reliability
Requirements
- 5+ years or equivalent depth of experience in professional software engineering, with significant backend focus
- Experience building and scaling production systems with Node and AWS
- Proficient with TypeScript (bonus)
- Track record of delivering reliable, performant systems at scale
Benefits
- Direct impact on millions of people’s ability to access credit
- High ownership with minimal bureaucracy
- Speed, learning, and impact are core values
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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